I wrote a really nice fancy post on the oil spill.
But then I deleted.
What is worth to have a fancy oil spill blog post.
I don't know.
So I will write this one.
The sad thing about the oil spill is that when we look at it
when we will stare at the oil spilling out of there
is
that our Reason failed us.
The Enlightenment, The Renaissance, Locke, Kant and everybody that has written a book post the black plague has declared that REASON is awesome.
Well
we all are looking at that oil pouring out of there
and then we look at our car
then we look at the plastic garbage can and the plastic cell phone and the plastic computer
and wonder
When Rome fell the people started to think, "Maybe all this conquering and violence leads to more conquering and violence, this isn't working."
When the Black Plague ended in 1350 people started to think, "God failed us. What do we do now?"
I think people are looking at that oil pouring out of there and thinking, "Reason has failed us. What do we do now?"
Oh this is so sad.
1 comments:
I don't know how I feel about the oil spill. I feel like it's very abstract, even though it's a very concrete thing.
People made a hole in the ground underneath the Gulf of Mexico. Oil is coming out of the hole. The oil kills animals and maybe plants, too. People are trying to stop the oil from coming out, but they can't seem to do it.
I just imagine that hole at the bottom of the ocean. It's like a wound that keeps bleeding, an "incurable wound," stigmata or something. I don't know.
On HTMLGIANT, I saw a thread that said: "If only you’d written a better poem, the oil spill would have never happened." I saw that and I felt like writing a poem called "poem that will stop the oil spill from ever happening." The poem would have probably concluded that the poem can't stop the oil from coming out of that hole, either. I don't know.
I watched this yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCfiv1xtoU. Zizek says that we should love trash and waste or something. In my head re the world and everything in it, I thought "fuck it."
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